There could also be another reason why we opt for routine in our mature years. To free up our #creativity and #imagination more. medium.com/long-sweet-v... #WritingCommunity #writing #creativewriting #culture #diversity #immigrant #Cuban #Londoner #writerslift #Medium #writers #London #British

A rolled down car window open to the elements on a cold winter evening might not be the first place one thinks of when it comes to finding a common bond with our fellow humans. medium.com/know-thyself... #WritingCommunity #creativewriting #creativity #culture #diversity #writing #FreddieMercury

Between the messages being beamed at me by the large screen and the flyers around me, I began to doubt my own well-being. medium.com/the-daily-cu... #WritingCommunity #writing #amwriting #creativewriting #creativity #culture #diversity #NHS #doctors #health #writerslift #Medium #writers #writer

Much has been said about the slow death of greasy spoons in the #UK. Maybe the demise of these great #British institutions has been slightly exaggerated. medium.com/one-table-on... #WritingCommunity #writing #amwriting #creativewriting #creativity #culture #diversity #foodwriting #food #foodies

Men do not grope because they are born in a particular country or belong to a specific culture. They do it because we still live in a patriarchy-ruled world. medium.com/heartline-pu... #writingcommunity #writing #creativewriting #amwriting #creativity #culture #diversity #writers #writerslift

As I stood amongst the trees, quiet as a mouse, the silence was occasionally broken by the trilling of what I took to be a blackbird. medium.com/globetrotter... #WritingCommunity #travel #photography #CapitalRingWalk #creativity #culture #diversity #CapitalRing #creativewriting #London #walking

As a #writer myself, I have been at the receiving end of both compliments and constructive criticism. It’s made me the #creative being I am. medium.com/writers-blok... #writingcommunity #creativewriting #creativity #culture #diversity #amwriting #writerslift #Medium #writers #Mediumwriters

There are many reasons why #ethnic #minorities — #readers and #writers alike — can oppose a particular work of #fiction. The two top ones I can think of straight away are #historical and #cultural. medium.com/readers-club... #writingcommunity #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting

The knot in my throat stays a little longer, like the uninvited guest to whom you have no food to offer. Until they get the message and leave. Until my throat is clear again. Until my tears have dried up. medium.com/the-howling-... #writingcommunity #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting

Imagine going down on the escalator towards the platform when you’ve left a dark, cold, and uninviting morning behind, only to emerge into shy, but welcoming, sunlight as the train heads for East Finchley. Bliss. 😊 medium.com/woodworkers-... #cycling #writingcommunity #photography #creativity

One of my highlights this year My #CapitalRingWalk #walking #walkingLondon #Londonwalking #creativity #culture #diversity #urbanwalking #psychogeography #environment #London #Londres #Londoner #Cuban #immigrant #CapitalRing #CapitalRing youtu.be/-ZVXwUpj3Ro?... via #YouTube #nature #wildlife

One of my highlights this year My #CapitalRingWalk youtu.be/SrWo2DnOd34?... #walking #walkingLondon #Londonwalking #creativity #culture #diversity #urbanwalking #psychogeography #environment #London #Londres #Londoner #Cuban #immigrant #CapitalRing

#SeamusHeaney didn’t so much write as gorge on words. Blackberry-Picking is not a read, it’s a feast. You come out of it smeared in “glossy purple clot.” medium.com/globetrotter... #CapitalRingWalk #writingcommunity #photography #travel #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting #walking

290 homes are for private sale. 51 for social rent and 30 for shared ownership. Make of that what you will. This is #London. medium.com/the-shortfor... #writingcommunity #writing #photography #culture #creativity #diversity #creativewriting #writerslift #gentrification #writers #capitalism

Has no one ever seen the men who, post-winter-solstice and pre-#Christmas shindig, wander aimlessly around shopping centres, #champneys products in hands? medium.com/illuminati-w... #WritingCommunity #Christmas2025 #ChristmasVibes #ChristmasSong #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting

#Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. The most open-ended question-marked holiday of them all. Who gets to go where and with whom? How many people are you ready to disappoint? medium.com/know-thyself... #writingcommunity #creativity #culture #diversity #Christmas2025 #creativewriting #writerslift

For many years I have realised that sometimes it’s better to follow #EricIdler’s advice and look on the bright side of life (whistling included). medium.com/readers-club... #MontyPython #WritingCommunity #writing #Christmas #Christmas2025 #ChristmasLove #creativity #diversity #culture #writer

We, humans, evolved to be on the move most of the time, not to settle in one place and switch the telly on at the end of the day. medium.com/globetrotter... #CapitalRingWalk #walking #writingcommunity #writing #creativewriting #photography #diversity #culture #creativity #writerslift #travel

and my verses acknowledge that because it’s begun to warm and chill, and we all know that something is happening here, but we don’t know what it is, do we, mr jones? medium.com/the-howling-... #WritingCommunity #BobDylan #NickCave #NikkiGiovanni #creativity #culture #diversity #poetry #poem #poet

The stars of the show, however, were the #hashbrowns. Golden and crunchy, they went down a treat when skewered with the #mushrooms, and #tomato. medium.com/one-table-on... #WritingCommunity #food #foodwriting #creativewriting #creativity #culture #diversity #foodwriter #writerslift #writers

2,500-acre #RichmondPark is London’s biggest Royal Park. As well as being a national nature reserve, the well-known landmark is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). medium.com/globetrotter... #writingcommunity #photography #creativity #diversity #culture #creativewriting #writer

It is less difficult to develop an emotional and affectionate bond for a newborn. With babies, our natural parental instinct kicks in immediately, even from the time they are still in mummy’s belly. medium.com/change-your-... #Writingcommunity #parenting #creativity #culture #diversity #writing

As I put my own #ChelseaFC hoodie up and adjust it in a way that it only covers my head up to my hairline, I see out of the corner of my eye a woman take two steps to her left away from me. medium.com/the-howling-... @chelseafcn.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #creativity #culture #diversity

I can’t stop thinking of the composers and singers who write words for people to listen to them, understand them, analyse and discuss them. medium.com/rock-nheavy/... #WritingCommunity #music #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting #writing #amwriting #worldmusic #writers #musicwriting

In Broomfield Park the ground is covered in #SeamusHeaney’s “shin-deep coffers of copper-fired leaves”. medium.com/woodworkers-... #WritingCommunity #cycling #cyclinglife #writing #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting @bikeabilityuk.bsky.social #travel #bicycles #Bikeability #writer

Housework remains the last frontier to be crossed and conquered, the territory where we will plant our Male of the Species Flag, once we have orbited around the sink and landed in front of the ironing board. medium.com/illumination... #WritingCommunity #creativity #diversity #writer #culture

One of the downsides, and there are many, is that this newfound love for the type of establishment that Prince Williams (and his dodgy uncle Andrew) represent, belies the true nature of contemporary Britain, especially in urban areas. medium.com/zenite/the-r... #WritingCommunity #creativity #culture

This is the difference between a good and a bad #poem: #rhythm. An under-par poem sounds flat to me whichever way I read it. On the other hand, a poem with its own groove, jumps, skips and hops around. medium.com/the-howling-... #WritingCommunity #creativity #culture #diversity #poetry #writing

I wanted to shoot the oranges, coppers, and golds @kewgardens1099.bsky.social is famous for. It had been some time since I’d seen the autumn display Kew likes to put on, though. medium.com/full-frame/s... #photography #WritingCommunity #writing #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting

Love for another culture’s food is not new or odd. Somehow, though, I also feel “rooted” in #Spanish #culinary output. That feeling grew tenfold this time around. medium.com/rooted-publi... #WritingCommunity #foodwriting #food #culture #creativity #diversity #photography #foodwriter #creativewriting

#Autumn’s soundtrack is #KarenDalton’s smoky voice. Its outlook, a seasonal crimson. Its sunsets, earlier and more dramatic. medium.com/the-daily-cu... #WritingCommunity #photography #writing #creativewriting #creativity #culture #diversity #autumnlandscape #autumnal #autumnleaves #meditation #yoga

What a strange figure he cut on this early autumn morning amongst the many runners, dog walkers, home-bound, late-night dishevelled revellers, and flat latte-holding #Hackney regulars. medium.com/long-sweet-v... #WritingCommunity #London #creativity #culture #diversity #amwriting #creativewriting

We have disassociated ourselves so much from reality that we have ended up empowering corporations to build our personalities for us. medium.com/writers-blok... #Facebook #Twitter #WritingCommunity #writing #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting #amwriting #writerslift #Instagram #TikTok

People like my ex-classmate are the small, imperceptible details in our lives. They make no big splashes, and yet years later, we stumble upon their faces in an old, yellow photograph medium.com/the-howling-... #WritingCommunity #creativity #culture #diversity #writing #amwriting #creativewriting

#Walking barefoot has a rich pedigree. From #hermits to #ascetics, many have chosen to forgo shoewear and opt for a simpler life, one in which #religion and #spirituality have often crossed paths. medium.com/heart-revolu... #WritingCommunity #writing #creativity #culture #diversity #amwriting

So, what brings you to #Andalucía? The young immigration officer asked me once my plane had landed. I’m in love with your land, I answered; no hesitation in my voice whatsoever. We both had a giggle. medium.com/globetrotter... #WritingCommunity #creativity #culture #diversity #Spain #writing #travel

Pausing for a few minutes on either side of the bridge, I realised that the light hitting the river rendered it painting-like. The light was not very strong, but not so weak that one could label the day cloudy. medium.com/full-frame/s... #WritingCommunity #photography #London #creativity #diversity

Still, as the late #poet, Mary Oliver, once said: “If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy/don’t hesitate. Give in to it.” So, we did. medium.com/globetrotter... #CapitalRing #writingcommunity #travel #photography #creativity #culture #diversity #walking #creativewriting #writers #poetry #London

Ripples of laughter undulate in the windless, stifling heat, carrying the mirthful tones of the two women’s voices across each dwelling medium.com/woodworkers-... #writing #creativewriting #WritingCommunity #Cuba #Havana #amwriting #creativity #culture #diversity #writerslift #memoir #autobiography

It is at times like these, that I switch off and tune in to #theBoss and, like that man at the end of his working day, think of the “wreck on the highway” acubaninlondon.medium.com/coffee-refle... #BruceSpringsteen #WritingCommunity #writing #creativity #diversity #culture #music #creativewriting

My #bicycle’s wheels get into a da DUM/da DUM/da DUM rhythm like one of #Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter-driven #sonnets. medium.com/know-thyself... #WritingCommunity #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting #photography #amwriting #writerslift #London #RiverLea #cycling #bicyclelife

In #Beale’s case, one of his choices was #Bach’s St Matthew Passion, one of the #German composer’s better-known works, and one in which a younger #Simon used to take part as a choirboy. medium.com/the-daily-cu... #WritingCommunity #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting #amwriting #writers

Yet, over the years, I fell for #WilliamBlake’s flowing “charter’d #Thames” and a few days ago I joined a bunch of strangers belting out #TheClash’s line “I live by the river” medium.com/globetrotter... #WritingCommunity #writing #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting #writers #writerslift

Inspiration strikes more often when we’re off guard. When we allow in the stories that have been gnawing at us for a long time. Unfinished sentences suddenly take shape and our “writing voice” steers the ship safely to port. medium.com/zenite/how-t... #WritingCommunity #creativity #culture #identity

After many years living in the #BigSmoke I’ve begun to fall in love with the Thames. Last Saturday I saw it with the tide in and it looked ominous, but also beautiful. medium.com/full-frame/s... #writingcommunity #photography #writing #creativity #diversity #culture #amwriting #creativewriting

"Many among the silent protesters in Parliament Square yesterday had to be asked if they were mobile enough to make the short walk to the police van." observer.co.uk/news/nationa... #PalestineAction #Palestine #Gaza #MiddleEast #Palestinians #Palestinian

Variety was always the word on people’s lips whenever they were confronted by the hundreds of #CDs bulging out of my towers. medium.com/the-narrativ... #WritingCommunity #music #writing #musicwriting #creativity #culture #diversity #amwriting #creativewriting #memoir #writerslift #writers #writer

I just published a new post on my #buymeacoffee Playing with Charcoal Pencils buymeacoffee.com/mariolopez/p... #WritingCommunity #writing #art #visualarts #creativewriting #creativity #culture #diversity #writerslift #amwriting #Cuban #Immigrant #Londoner #Londres #londinense #London

I just published a new post on my #buymeacoffee Coffee, Reflections, and Music buymeacoffee.com/mariolopez/c... #WritingCommunity #writing #philosophy #creativit #culture #diversity #creativewriting #amwriting #writerslift #Cuban #Immigrant #Londoner #London #Londres #londinense